Back to a newly redecorated room...here's to dumpster diving for roses!

Have a lovely weekend!!!!

bits and pieces of NYC....we'll be getting the official scrap book later..

Tourist day! Hehe....having fun at the Elis Island gift shop....

Headed to Eliss island on the ferry-tourist Wednesday!

Eating classy

Ride out of the city and back to being college students:

Our courageous skit leader/director/actress!

I'll be sure to show you all more pictures as we get them!!!!

NYC Here I come!

Mission trip? To NYC? For free? A day of touring? Need I say more?

We've been meeting weekly for a month now, practicing a skit for kids ministry....I officially am now packed agenda in hand and Coco Channels biography ready for the 6 hour van ride.

PS. I've wanted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge ever since reading "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."

"I hope that if ever I'd get to New York I'd like to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge....New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've seen it! It's true what they say-it's the most beautiful city in the world."

"Brooklyn's better. There's a feeling about it...you've got to live in Brooklyn to know."

Roses are Red (Even the ones us single ladies dig out of garbage cans the week after Valentines day

Yay! Flower collection time! Drying them, decorating with them, pressing them in my darling unreadable "Works of Jane Austen," sending petals in letters etc. It's all so deliciously romantic! People are missing out!

I'm drying petals to make a rose tea recipe I found at: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090623161506AAMnU8n

If trashcans could speak...what would mine say?

Yes I am unashamedly wallowing in a rather girlish obsession with roses. I can take your judging. :)

Yours truly!

Diversity and Social justice workshop

I decided to begin the peer workshop I was leading on diversity and social justice in the classroom, by coming in as a goth and making a scene. It was glorious-everyone (except for the previously warned victim of the yelling) was quite taken a-back. I then had them take a few minutes to write down how/if they thought that demonstrated diversity and if they thought the student (me) thought her voice was heard.

What a blast even my lovely library boss enjoyed the tale and gettup. I had asked one of my friends who calls herself goth if it would be ok. I didn't want to offend her. She actualy was really excited for me. "Oh! You're welcom to borrow any clothes or makeup!"

-What a blast!

Yours truly!

Door decorating and letter writing

To all of you wonderful people,
Thank you so much for all the letters-it is always such a delightful surprise and I treasure them (and like to put them around my room with dried flowers as decoration.)

At last decorated my door......

Yours truly!

More kitchen experiments

Chocolate "muggin" cake from scratch!

About 1/2 cup buckweat flour

sprinkle of Baking soda

Sugar to taste

Cocoa powder

Water

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Mix buckweat flour, baking soda, sugar and cocoa powder in a mug. Add a glug of water (till it's a thick slush.) Heat in microwave (about 2 minutes) till it has risen and become cake-like. Next make a mixture of water and cocoa poweder, adding sugar to taste-microave till its a smooth gooey mixture and pour over muggin. It's a great to tide you over till the next meal.
And now for......


Soup from scratch!

several cups of water

1 finely chopped garlic clove

several dashes Italian Spice

Lots of salt-a Tablespoon or more

About a Teaspoon of Pepper

Random packet of flavoring I found in the kitchen (supposed to go over noodles?)

Broken up spaghetti noodles

extra virgin olive oil

few dashes vinegar

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Mix all ingrediants and heat till bioling

Add spaghetti and boil till soft

Warm with a gentle spice! Enjoy!